Well, the Dominican Wonder Twins Chronicles are one step closer to being renamed plain-old Heroes Recap. That’s because last night, Alejandro had a run in with a pocket knife, courtesy of Sylar. The Wonder Twins and Sylar had made it cross country to Virginia, where Sylar taps taps taps right into Maya’s weak point in order to come between her and bro Alejandro: The fact that behind her powers to kill is intent, pure and simple. She killed her cheating sister-in-law, not accidentally, but because she wanted to (told ya’ll in a previous post!). If she can bring on her powers, Sylar tells her, she can control it and doesn’t need her hermanito. She gets angry at this, at which Sylar keels over and then she has to bring him back on her own, which she does. Master stroke! Maya dumps Alejandro (que tonta!). Alejandro leaves the room, but not the hotel. He comes back and gets into it with Sylar. Bad move. Sylar overpowers him and stabs him dead. Hardly surprising, considering how badly developed and little liked the twins’ story was, and also considering that the show’s creator all but said they were goners. We expect Maya to bite the dust next week and we’ll save our final verdict on the Dominicanos till then. Sylar and Maya, now an item, arrive at Suresh’s house. Sylar calls the good doc and tells him he’s waiting for him at Suresh’s apartment.

Meanwhile, the Shanti virus has taken center stage. Hiro travels back to 1977 and learns that Kenzei aka Adam had tried to release it and as a result, was imprisoned by the Company. Present-day Adam tells Peter that Company scientist Victoria Pratt worked on the virus and that they must find her. They do, and Peter reads her mind to discover where the virus vial is kept (season 1 stomping grounds, Primatech Paper in Odessa, TX). She warns him that Adam is evil and bent on releasing the virus, which Adam denies. Adam then kills Victoria, making it look as if he was doing so to prevent her from killing Peter with a shotgun.

Have no fear, Mr. Bennet is alive and well, and strapped down to a bed at the Company. Suresh shot him in the eye last week, yes, but he also shot him with Claire’s miracle blood, which brought him back to life. Suresh is now squarely working for the company, and develops what he thinks is an antidote to help Nikki. Meanwhile, Bob delivers his “ashes” to Claire, mom and bro, who believing HRG is indeed dead, they release them into the ocean. On the way back to the car, Claire spots Elle, who has been assigned to tail her, and tells her she’s going to tell the whole world about her abilities, so the Company will have no power over her and her family.

Meanwhile, back in New Orleans, Nikki arrives to be with Micah while she awaits Suresh’s antidote. Micah’s cousin steals his backpack (which contains expensive comic books and the medal his dad received for rescuing someone from a fire). The cousin tries to sell Micah’s comic books to some thugs, but gets jacked by them instead. Monica, testing out her powers, tries to retrieve the bag from their lair, but gets busted and thrown into the back of a van instead. Micah runs home, presumably to get his mom to kick their asses. We’ll see next week.

Also next week, we’ll get to see what happens after the last night’s final scene, in which Hiro arrives at PrimaTech at the same time as Peter and Adam do. Hiro tells Peter that Adam must pay for Hiro’s dad’s death (I guess it would have been too easy to just tell Peter that Adam is a bad guy bent on killing humanity) and when Peter threatens to zap him if he tries to kill Adam, charges him with the samurai sword.

Next week: The season finale, thanks to the writers’ strike. Sylar will rise as TV’s best villain. See you then.

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